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Some interesting street art from Brooklyn: Ellis is an undercover shadow artist; he traces the shadows of objects on the street such as a bicycle propped against a fence, a tree, a lamp post. The next morning the shadow has moved, but the trace is still there, a reminder of the shadow that once was. If you’re lucky enough, you’ll pass by at the right time, and see the shadow fit perfectly into the tracing.

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Some great examples of street art; I do like the flaking of some of the works, exemplifying an aspect of the nature of this artform, which makes it so much more real and dedicated to life as such than ‘high’ commodified art.

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Not unsurprisingly, the National Geographics site contains some awesome photos - below are examples from four galleries of its Patterns in Nature series: Enigmatic Earth, Mysterious Earth, Aurorae and Sand.

The complexly branched arms of the basket sea star, or starfish, catch plankton for the echinoderm.
Photograph by Brian J. Skerry

The borders of four nations—Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates—blur beneath the shifting sands of the Rub al Khali, or Empty Quarter, desert.
Photograph by George Steinmetz

The northern lights turn the night sky an otherworldly green above Wapusk National Park in Manitoba, Canada.
Photograph by Norbert Rosing

Strange creatures slithering up from the Empty Quarter desert floor in the Arabian Peninsula are really a network of barchan dunes—sculpted by winds that over time strike the sand from a consistent direction.
Photograph by George Steinmetz

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More images at Sunbelt-Software.

This year I didn’t look at anything relating to Burning Man - until I came across these and other photos at TechRepublic and LAist. What I’m not showing here are pictures of the burning effigies or the fireworks, which besides generators and recreational vehicles apparently created large amounts of pollution, leaving some attendees of the annual counterculture festival in the Nevada desert wondering how green the event actually was.

Several large art pieces at Burning Man 2007 attacked the oil industry head on. Mike Ross cut up pieces of two real oil tankers for his “Big Rig Jig,” curved them and hoisted them in the air in an “S” shape. People could crawl up inside the tankers.

Sean Orlando’s “Steampunk Tree House” evokes a vision of the future and the past. In a world with no trees there may be replicas, Orlando writes in an artist statement. His tree house is made of rusty machinery and gears and gives off steam in a nod to circa-1900s steam technology.

Bikes are a necessary form of transportation on the “playa,” the barren alkaline desert in northern Nevada on which Burning Man takes place. This year, an arch built out of bicycles was placed at the entrance to Center Cafe, where coffee can be purchased in recyclable cups. Along with espresso drinks and lemonade, ice is the only other item available for purchase at the event.